Bible Cross References
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.
Galatians 2:4
although some wanted it done. Pretending to be believers, these men slipped into our group as spies, in order to find out about the freedom we have through our union with Christ Jesus. They wanted to make slaves of us,
Galatians 2:12-14
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Before some men who had been sent by James arrived there, Peter had been eating with the Gentile believers. But after these men arrived, he drew back and would not eat with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who were in favor of circumcising them.
13
The other Jewish believers also started acting like cowards along with Peter; and even Barnabas was swept along by their cowardly action.
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When I saw that they were not walking a straight path in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you have been living like a Gentile, not like a Jew. How, then, can you try to force Gentiles to live like Jews?"
Galatians 4:9-11
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But now that you know God---or, I should say, now that God knows you---how is it that you want to turn back to those weak and pitiful ruling spirits? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
10
You pay special attention to certain days, months, seasons, and years.
11
I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing?
Galatians 5:1-6
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Freedom is what we have---Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
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Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all.
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Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law.
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Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace.
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As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith.
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For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Galatians 6:13
Even those who practice circumcision do not obey the Law; they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you submitted to this physical ceremony.
Galatians 6:14
As for me, however, I will boast only about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; for by means of his cross the world is dead to me, and I am dead to the world.
Philippians 3:5-7
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I was circumcised when I was a week old. I am an Israelite by birth, of the tribe of Benjamin, a pure-blooded Hebrew. As far as keeping the Jewish Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee,
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and I was so zealous that I persecuted the church. As far as a person can be righteous by obeying the commands of the Law, I was without fault.
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But all those things that I might count as profit I now reckon as loss for Christ's sake.
Colossians 2:19-23
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and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.
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You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to this world? Why do you obey such rules as
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"Don't handle this," "Don't taste that," "Don't touch the other"?
22
All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.
23
Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions.
1 Timothy 4:8
Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is valuable in every way, because it promises life both for the present and for the future.
Hebrews 8:8-13
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But God finds fault with his people when he says, "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will draw up a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
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It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.
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Now, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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None of them will have to teach their friends or tell their neighbors, 'Know the Lord.' For they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.
12
I will forgive their sins and will no longer remember their wrongs."
13
By speaking of a new covenant, God has made the first one old; and anything that becomes old and worn out will soon disappear.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.
Hebrews 13:10
The priests who serve in the Jewish place of worship have no right to eat any of the sacrifice on our altar.
Revelation 21:5
Then the one who sits on the throne said, "And now I make all things new!" He also said to me, "Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted."